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A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion...
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Though defensive violence will always be ‘a sad necessity’ in the eyes of men...
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning....
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Whenever I hear people talking about ‘liberal ideas,’ I am always astounded that men...
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The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our...
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Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them....
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and...
Quote #17987
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Quote #7522
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.