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Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Source: Speech Democracy and Education (1896) -
Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
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Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
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Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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