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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. - Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

Communication, Eloquence

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal

Intelligence, Small, Minds

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. - Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal

Valentine's Day, Which

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal

Faith, Harm, Proves

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. - Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

Alone, Men, Miseries

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal

Love, We Cannot, Established

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. - Blaise Pascal

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal

Cost, Accomplish, Kind

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. - Blaise Pascal

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. Blaise Pascal

Power, Greatness, His

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. - Blaise Pascal

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal

Inspirational, Deeds, Most

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal

Men, Think, Righteous

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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. Blaise Pascal

View, Wish, Alike

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal

Made, Usual, Had

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Blaise Pascal

Feeling, Reasoning, Ends

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal

Faith, Gift, Latter

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal

Single, Inability, Still

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. - Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal

Justice, Powerless, Force

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Blaise Pascal

Only, Conceal, Duplicity

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal

Thoughts, Always, Examine

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him. Blaise Pascal

Serve, Kinds, Reasonable

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal

Sail, Within, Ever

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. Blaise Pascal

Moving On, Offended, Heals

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

Nature, Nowhere, Which

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. Blaise Pascal

Always, Will, Console

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal

Humble, Jesus, Before

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. Blaise Pascal

Reason, Some, Function

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. Blaise Pascal

Mind, Which, Discovered

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