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"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
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