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A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
[ Patriotism ]
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All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
[ Proverbs ]
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
[ America ]
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
[ Beauty ]
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
[ Cities and City Life ]
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
[ Chaos ]
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
[ Character ]
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Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
[ Emotions ]
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
[ Fanatics and Fanaticism ]
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Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
[ Fun ]
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Habit is stronger than reason.
[ Habit ]
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
[ History and Historians ]
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
[ Pain ]
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
[ Intolerance ]
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It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
[ Advantage ]
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
[ Saints ]
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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
[ Unhappiness ]
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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
[ Knowledge ]
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
[ Happiness ]
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
[ Life and Living ]
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Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
[ Potential ]
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.
[ Music ]
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
[ Nonsense ]
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Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
[ Sacrifice ]
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
[ Swearing ]
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
[ Dignity ]
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Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
[ Colleges and Universities ]
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
[ Dignity ]
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
[ Prayer ]
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
[ Conscience ]
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Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
[ Sanity ]
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
[ Skepticism ]
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
[ Society ]
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
[ Body ]
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
[ Disease ]
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
[ Family ]
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
[ Education ]
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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
[ Fame ]
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The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
[ Commitment ]
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
[ Institutions ]
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
[ Conversation ]
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
[ Spirit and Spirituality ]
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
[ Space ]
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
[ Emotions ]
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
[ Sympathy ]
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There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
[ Food and Eating ]
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
[ Past ]
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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
[ Words ]
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