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Bűchler Sándor or Alexander Bűchler

Suffering should lead man to self-inspection... to the admission of errors... and to prayer and forgiveness.

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Hugh Blair

The prevailing manners of an age depend, more than we are aware of, or are willing to allow, on the conduct of the women: this is one of the principal things on which the great machine of human society turns.

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Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

Most people are dissatisfied, because too few know that the distance between one and nothing is greater than that between one and a thousand.

Character | Nothing | People |

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Thomas Boston

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

Character | Faith | Soul | Wants |

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F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall, he would be willing to repeat.

Character | Man | Silence | Wisdom |

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Phillips Brooks

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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Jean de La Bruyère

Never judge people by their appearance.

Appearance | Character | People |

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Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak NULL

My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence, and so long as they occupy and cultivate it they have the right to the soil, but if they voluntarily leave it then any other people have a right to settle on it. Nothing can be sold, except things that can be carried away.

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Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun

Part of human nature resents change, loves equilibrium, while another part welcomes novelty, loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war, but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster.

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Jean de La Bruyère

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Character | People |

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Richard Maurice Bucke, often called Maurice Bucke

The life which is in man is eternal, as all life is eternal; that the soul of man is as immortal as God is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love, and that the happiness of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain.

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Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Character | People |

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Lenny Bruce, born Leonard Alfred Schneider

Every day, people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

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Bias NULL

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Character | Man | Possessions | Wise |

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Hugh Blair

All the principles which religion teaches, and all the habits which it forms, are favorable to strength of mind. It will be found that whatever purifies fortifies also the heart.

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William Blake

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Character | Man | Perception |

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Abel Bonnard

In love one has need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.

Character | Love | Need | Friendship |

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Heywood Broun, fully Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun

The ability to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Ability | Character | Love |

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