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"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men."
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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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"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."
Character
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
Experience
"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
Love
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
Body
"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."
Action
"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
Character
"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
Creativity
"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
Time
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
Truth
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
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