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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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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 important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
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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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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
Man
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
Hope
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
Life
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
Change
"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
Peace
"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another."
Age
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Democracy
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
God
"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."
Nature
"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
Faith
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