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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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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

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Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

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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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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

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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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I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

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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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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

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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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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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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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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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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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