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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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