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"In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."

"It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything."

"All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena."

"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."

"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."

"Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death."

"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
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