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It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
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It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
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