"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."
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"It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles."
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"Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."
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"Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith."
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"The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes."
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"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal."
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"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."
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"The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence"
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand."
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"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career."
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"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."
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"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."
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"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
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"Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself."
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"Man's most serious activity is play."
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