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• Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

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  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Blaise Pascal (1828). “Thoughts on religion, and other subjects”, p.112

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• All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

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  Greatness, Misery, Prove

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• The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

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  Jesus, Humble, Pride

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• There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

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  Fear, Believe, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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• Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

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  Greatness, Suffering, Mishaps

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• How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

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  Christian, Heaven, Lost Everything

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• God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

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  Heart, Mind, Given

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• True eloquence scorns eloquence.

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  Eloquence, Scorn

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.240

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• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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  Knowledge, Science, Littles

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• If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

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  Ignorance, Bliss, Blisters

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• What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

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  Easter, Atheist, Return

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.361

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• The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

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  Nature, Agency, Secret

  Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku (1838). “Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy”, p.337

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• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

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  Christian, Melancholy, Pleasure

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• Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

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  Amusement, Deceiving, Graves

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.94

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• The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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  Life, Men, Anxiety

  "Pensées" (1669), Article VI. 46 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

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  Life, Hope To Live, Arranging

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• [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

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  Reading, Book, Men

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• True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.

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  Light, Morality, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

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  Writing, Heart, Men

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• The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

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  Thinking, Omnipotence, Imagination

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• In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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  Past, Decision, Looks

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.168, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

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  Speak, All Things, Knows

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• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

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  Wine, Giving, Littles

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast.

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  Angel, Men, Want

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, pt.6, no.358.

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• The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness--by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.

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  Animal, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.150, Open Road Media

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