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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
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