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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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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial…
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
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By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest;…
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but…
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents…
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I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was…
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What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I…
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