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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of…
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous…
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Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of…
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Drugs. If they did not exist our governors would have invented them in order to prohibit them and so make much of…
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
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It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
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He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either:…
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Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is…
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