Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. - Henri Frederic Amiel

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Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

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Learn to. . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

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Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

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