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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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No sane man will dance.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
— Joseph Heller
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No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
— George S. Patton
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Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?
— Unknown Author
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Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying…
— Graham Swift
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
— George Santayana
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Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural…
— John Muir
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
— Carl Jung
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Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
— Luciano Pavarotti
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