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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
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There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
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Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
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These look up to you with reverence, and would be animated by the sight of him at whose soul they have taken fire in his writings.
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.
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