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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards
kicked me out.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of
the penalty for greatness, and evey man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
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Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance;
liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man
himself; conservatism is debonnair and social; reform is individual and imperious.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the
people all of the time.
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be
without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the
cats.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
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Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which
paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
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So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably
magnificent world in itself.
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God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places,
including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
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