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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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