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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."

"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done."

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

"In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing."

"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."
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