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I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life

The man who dies rich dies disgraced