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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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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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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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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
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"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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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Success
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
Life
"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."
Imagination
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Work
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
Talent
"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."
Discipline
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
Impression
"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."
Conviction
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
Etiquette
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Mind
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