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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."
"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."
"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."
"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
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