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Richard Cecil: The first step...

Richard Cecil: The first step...

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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Hosea Ballou: Doubt is an...

Hosea Ballou: Doubt is an...

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

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Robert South: If there be...

Robert South: If there be...

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights...

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The literary woman,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The literary woman,...

The literary woman, unsatisfied, agitated, desolate in heart and entrails, listening every minute with painful...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Worry is a...

Corrie Ten Boom: Worry is a...

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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Corrie Ten Boom: Forgiveness is an...

Corrie Ten Boom: Forgiveness is an...

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the...

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Raoul Vaneigem: Who wants a...

Raoul Vaneigem: Who wants a...

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of...

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Eric Butterworth: More important than...

Eric Butterworth: More important than...

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the...

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains...

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be...

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Phillips Brooks: A prayer in...

Phillips Brooks: A prayer in...

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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Phillips Brooks: Self-confidence is either...

Phillips Brooks: Self-confidence is either...

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's...

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Hosea Ballou: A single bad...

Hosea Ballou: A single bad...

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white...

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John Bunyan: Nothing can render...

John Bunyan: Nothing can render...

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure...

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Sydney Smith: I never read...

Sydney Smith: I never read...

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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Frederick Robertson: In God's world,...

Frederick Robertson: In God's world,...

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no...

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William Hamilton: [A]ll that is...

William Hamilton: [A]ll that is...

[A]ll that is conceivable in thought lies between two extremes, which, as contradictory of each other, can not both be...

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Jacques Maritain: Poetry proceeds from...

Jacques Maritain: Poetry proceeds from...

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to...

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