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There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
A warrior carries his shield for the sake of the entire line.
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.
My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.
As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.
The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.
One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?
Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.
Realization of God cannot be achieved without ecstatic love for Him.
Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.
A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.
It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is