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"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"What I think is a different matter. Maybe I think some rather curious things-but until thinking's got you somewhere it's no use talking about it."
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
Integrity
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility
"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict
"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route."
Happiness
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power
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