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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

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But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

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Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

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Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

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When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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