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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
— Albert Pike
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
— Seneca the Younger
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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.
— Glen Duncan
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Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and…
— Andras Angyal
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