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People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
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