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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity - where energies flow smoothly in one direction - there will be much doing but no music.
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It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16 : The Healing of H -
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
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It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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