Quote by Blaise Pascal
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal

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There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. – Blaise Pascal

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. – Charles Darwin

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Mankind is made great or little by its own will. – Friedrich Schiller

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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. – Jack Kerouac

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. – William Butler Yeats

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. – Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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