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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that…
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To read without joy is stupid.
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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and…
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a…
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In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first…
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…
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The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected…
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It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would…
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You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There…
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…
— Karl Pearson
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
— Plautus
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It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would…
— John Edward Williams
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity…
— John Woolman
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