Quotes 41 till 60 of 701.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
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