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The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting.
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.