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“Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.”

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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

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It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that…

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust…

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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of…

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to…

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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

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Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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