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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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