"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."
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"Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way."
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"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."
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"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"
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"The eternal feminine draws us on high."
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"A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."
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"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."
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"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants."
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"Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best."
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"Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws."
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"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
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"Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?"
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"It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it."
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"Collectors are happy people."
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"Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself."
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"I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both."
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"A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him."
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"Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched."
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"The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith."
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"There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines."
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