"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."

Man, Reason

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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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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."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"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."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"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."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."