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Irving Babbitt

"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Let no such man be trusted."

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Donna Grant

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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Donna Grant

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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Donna Grant

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

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Donna Grant

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."

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Irving Babbitt
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."

Achievement

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Irving Babbitt
"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."

Discipline

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Irving Babbitt
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."

Leadership

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Irving Babbitt
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."

Virtue

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Irving Babbitt
"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

Sympathy

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Irving Babbitt
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."

Reading

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Irving Babbitt
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."

Society

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Irving Babbitt
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."

Faith

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Irving Babbitt
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."

Humanity

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