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"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."

"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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