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"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
"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."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"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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"The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it."
"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'"
"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."
"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."
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