"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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"I've always had great faith in people."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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