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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."
"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"
"The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals."
"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."
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