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"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
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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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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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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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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
Vision
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
Man
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."
Thought
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
Vision
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
Experience
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
God
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
Science
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
Life
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
Time
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