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The Harvard Classics 48: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works is unavailable, but you can change that!

When Charles William Eliot assembled The Harvard Classics, more commonly known as “The Five-Foot Shelf,” and later the “Shelf of Fiction”, he gathered this epic collection of key works which he thought would best represent “the progress of man… from the earliest historical times to the close of the nineteenth century.” In his introduction to The Harvard Classics, Eliot likens the collection to a...

215 To fear death without danger, and not in danger, for one must be a man. 216 Sudden death alone is feared; hence confessors stay with lords. 217 An heir finds the title-deeds of his house. Will he say, “Perhaps they are forged?” and neglect to examine them? 218 Dungeon.—I approve of not examining the opinion of Copernicus; but this …! It concerns all our life to know whether the soul be mortal or immortal. 219 It is certain that the mortality or immortality of the soul must make an entire difference
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