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"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."
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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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"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 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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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"America is a young country with an old mentality."
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"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
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"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
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"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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