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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?"
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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
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"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
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"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
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