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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.