"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
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"Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."
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"The truth is more important than the facts."
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"If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation."
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"Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness"
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"The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near."
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"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription."
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"Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination."
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"Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential."
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"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."
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"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
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"The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it."
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"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me."
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"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
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"Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties."
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"After the event, even a fool is wise."
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"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."
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"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."
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"What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow."
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"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man."
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