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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Literature
Andre Gide

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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Failure
Charles J. Givens

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
Questions
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I have got tow reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
Success
Betty Grable

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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
Smile
Thomas Gray

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Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Reason
Alexander Hamilton

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Reason
William Hazlitt

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An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
Miracles
A. P. Herbert

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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
Reason
Aaron Hill

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
Marriage
Hitopadesa

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When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
Trust
Edgar Watson Howe

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Life and Living
David Hume

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Truth
Thomas H. Huxley

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Science and Scientists
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
Reason
Italian Proverb

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Opinions
Thomas Jefferson

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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Ridicule
Thomas Jefferson

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Treason
Douglas William Jerrold

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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
Unity
Lyndon B. Johnson

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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Prejudice
Samuel Johnson

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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Rhetoric
Samuel Johnson

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
Opinions
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun