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- "A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with. "
- "Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. "
- "Human improvement is from within outward. "
- "In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. "
- "No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by ..."
- "Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we ..."
- "Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. "
- "Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a ..."
- "Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right ..."
- "The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. "
- "The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. "
- "The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. "
- "The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. "
- "The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes ..."
- "To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. "
- "We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. "
- "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture ..."
- "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. "
