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«Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
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Apocalypse, pardon, rendered, Second Coming, sustained, The Clouds, unequal
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