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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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"They never fail who die in a great cause."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
Success
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
Life
"If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted."
Imagination
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Work
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
Talent
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
Discipline
"We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind."
Impression
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
Conviction
"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."
Etiquette
"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
Mind
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