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Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

To will and not to do when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it.

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Arthur Stringer, fully Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Genius seems to be the faculty of having faith in everything, and especially in one's self.

Character | Faith | Genius | Self |

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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Wisdom is of the soul, it is not susceptible of proof, it is its own proof, applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; something there is in the flot of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

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Henry Gardiner Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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John Hay Allison

Truth is the disciple of the ascetic, the quest of the mystic, the faith of the simple, the ransom of the weak, the standard of the righteous, the doctrine of the meek, and the challenge of Nature. Together, all these constitute the Law of the Universe.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

Character | Faith | Honor | Man |

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Simone Weil

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Character | Reality | Wisdom |

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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all, ever since what might be call’d thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my youthful mind, I had had a desire to attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance to justify the ways of God to man... which is the foundation of moral America... to formulate a poem whose every thought or fact should directly or indirectly be or connive at an implicit belief in the wisdom, health, mystery, beauty of every process, every concrete object, every human or other existence, not only consider’d from the point of view of all, but of each. While I can not understand it or argue it out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism through Time.

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Lionel Trilling

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable, in many respects seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their differences and specialness.

Ability | Character | People | Reality |

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Herbert Sebastian Agar

Every civilization rests on a set of promises... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Civilization | Faith | Hope | Wisdom |

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W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Faith | Object | Unique | Wisdom |

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Bernice Abbott

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the everchanging and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself!

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

What I admire in Columbus is not having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

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James B. Walker

Men with intellectual light alone may make advances without moral principle, but without that moral principle which gospel faith produces, permanent progress is impossible.

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