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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.
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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
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