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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

 

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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder

 

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I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

 

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

 

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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

 

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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work

 

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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

 

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Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

 

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often

 

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t is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

 

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.

 

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

 

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Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored -- but rarely, if ever, are they honored.

 

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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

 

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

 

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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow

 

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When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

 

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Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

 

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Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.