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- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
- Cease
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
- Effective Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
- Evasive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
- Hospitality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
- Nov 07, 2020
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
- Discrepancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
- Forcible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020