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"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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