Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
タグ: humanity, hope-and-despair, hope, cruelty

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
タグ: independence, always, long, religion
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
タグ: depends, merit, result, work
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
タグ: more, man, sea, life
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
タグ: only, like, weather, day
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people?
タグ: strength-through-adversity, strength-and-courage, strength, faith, courage, bravery
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