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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
"The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them."
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"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."
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."
"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
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