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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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