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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
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"All great peoples are conservative."
Conservative
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
Difference
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
Silence
"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
Life
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
Ego
"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
Heart
"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Perspective
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
Man
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Wisdom
"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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Personal Development
"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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Personal Development
"It is better to believe than doubt."
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Personal Development
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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Personal Development
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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