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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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Individualsm is a fatal poison. But individuality is the salt of common life.
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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