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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
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