Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.
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Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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Be who you are, and go the whole way.
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More matter with less art.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
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What I want to focus on tonight is the state of our democracy. Understand, democracy does not require uniformity but democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity - the idea that for all our outward differences, we're all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.
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If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!
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We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.
