Evelyn Beatrice Hall quotes
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“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.”
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Stephen G. Tallentyre, 1906.
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“All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.”
-- Evelyn Beatrice HallSource : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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Source : "The Iron Jackal". Book by Chris Wooding, 2011.
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Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
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“One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.”
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Source : Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.119, Lulu Press, Inc
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