"Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting."
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"Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute."
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"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
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"We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible."
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"Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them."
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"Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has."
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"Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty."
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"The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life."
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"Before you use a fancy word, make room for it."
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"Chance generally favors the prudent."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"Space is to place as eternity is to time."
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"The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting."
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"The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first."
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"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."
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"When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile."
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"Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear."
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"We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking."
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"A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball."
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"There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge."
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