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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"Do it or not, but do."

"I'm good at doing things I'm not supposed to, she said, then kicked the door open."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
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"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."

"To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god."
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