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"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
"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."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
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