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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Every noble work is at first impossible.

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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All great peoples are conservative.

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

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Be not a slave of words.

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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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