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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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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
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"Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."
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"To marry is to get a binocular view of life."
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"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
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"The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things."
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"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."
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"The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts."
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"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
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"The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's."
People

"The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born."
Time

"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."
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