"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."
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"Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices."
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"No man can have society upon his own terms."
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"The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible."
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"Nature hates monopolies and exceptions."
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"Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed."
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"The force of character is cumulative."
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"What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased."
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"In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do."
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"The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence."
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"Liberty is a slow fruit."
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"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
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"Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour."
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"The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual."
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"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self."
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"Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind."
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"A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches."
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"People say law but they mean wealth."
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"If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground."
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"Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man."
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