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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us…
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Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
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Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the…
— Thornton Wilder
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.
— Austin Osman Spare
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Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well -…
— Carrie P Snow
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I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
— Nelson Mandela
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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers…
— John Updike
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only…
— Eric Hoffer
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart…
— Robert Burton
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