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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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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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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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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

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The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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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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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 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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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 object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

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"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

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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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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

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