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/ page 106 of 1205 /The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake.
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably generally they are the same people.
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
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