A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

4 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.— filed under Christ's Life and Ministry
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.— filed under Morality
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.— filed under Mystery
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.— filed under Parents
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