“Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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