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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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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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