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"True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat."
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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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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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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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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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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."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
Nature
"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."
Fear
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
Heart
"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."
Family
"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."
Fact
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
Force
"The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind."
Mind
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
Evil
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
Suicide
"It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself."
Man
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