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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
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Chance
Ignorance
Names
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Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
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Capacity
Genius
Trouble
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Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
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Delirium Tremens
Hawthorne
Kind
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The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
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Heart
Poet
Should
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The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
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Falsehood
Asserted
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A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.
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Audience
Talkers
Talking
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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
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Eye
His Eyes
Views
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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Men
Every Man
Honesty
Public Service
Thinking
Frankly
Fully
Says
Service
Thinks
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If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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Pretext
Profound
Respectable
Study
Wish
Nowadays
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
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Journey
Men
Walking Meditation
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The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
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Religion
Faith
Atheism
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The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
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Nature
Children
Environment
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The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
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Journey
Hiking
Practice
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When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.
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Belief
Giving Up
Teaching
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I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.
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Men
Believe
Mountain Peaks
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The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
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Opinion
Thinking
Way
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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Enthusiastic
Great Men
Intellect
Letters
Recreation
Men Great Man
Desires
Suppress
Therefore
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Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
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Intellectual
May
Names
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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
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Atheism
Doubt
Meaningless
No Doubt
People
Theology
Thinking
Collection
Express
Few People
Identified
Unintelligible
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Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
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Men
Angel
Laughing
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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.
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Men
Believe
People
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