All Edward Dahlberg Quotes
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
Edward Dahlberg
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg
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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Edward Dahlberg
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Edward Dahlberg
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Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Edward Dahlberg
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg
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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg
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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward Dahlberg
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