"The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend."
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"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age"
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"Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread."
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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
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"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be."
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"It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well."
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"The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums."
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"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."
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"Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center."
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"The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science"
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"Man is as full of potential as he is of importance."
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"Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards."
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"In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated."
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"Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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"Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies."
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"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."
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"Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all."
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"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."
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"Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains."
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"Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction."
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