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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

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If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

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It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

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Surprise is the secret of joy.

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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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