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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some…
— Louisa May Alcott
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If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the…
— Unknown Author
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There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
— Thomas Paine
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Sweet shall be your rest if your heart does not reproach you.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
— Mark Twain
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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope…
— Ayn Rand
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .…
— John Quincy Adams
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