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• As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

  Denis Diderot

  Book, Learning, Numbers

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• It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Eye, Mirrors

  "Sandman #21: 'Season of Mists'". DC Comics series by Neil Gaiman, preludium, 1992.

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• Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

  Jack London

  Fashion, Men, Hunting

  Jack London (2012). “White Fang”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mind, Fickle, Persuasion

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.21, Booklassic

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• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, School

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• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• A multitude of people and yet solitude.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Solitude, Tale Of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens (2015). “British Classics: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.87, The Planet

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• I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Men, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Father, Should Have, People

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

  Frederick Douglass

  Traveled

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• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Teaching, People

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• I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Men, Doe

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

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• Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

  Ford Madox Ford

  War, Mean, White

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.20, Vintage

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• Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

  David Hume

  Truth, Honesty, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

  Kenny Smith

  Needs, Sake, Clarity

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• There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Art World

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2013.

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• One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Errors, Soul

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• It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Istanbul, Firsts, Celebrate

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Jun 11, 2016

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• What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!

  Stephen Charnock

  Eye, Vision, Receiving

  Stephen Charnock (2013). “The Existence and Attributes of God”, p.35, Ravenio Books

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• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.

  Max Nordau

  Discovery, Civilization, Hysteria

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Effort, Littles

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.133

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• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Forever

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• The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

  Victor Hugo

  Mistake, Thinking, Together

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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