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M. Beer

Man's freedom is his inner worth; His guilt alone can rob him of it.

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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

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William Blackstone, fully Sir William Blackstone

The suicide is guilt of a double offence; one spiritual, in invading the prerogative of the Almighty... the other temporal, against the king.

Guilt | Suicide | Wisdom |

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Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

Governments which suppress freedom of speech... act like children who shut their eyes in order not to be seen.

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Newton D. Baker, fully Newton Diehl Baker, Jr.

The man who graduates to-day and stops learning to-morrow is uneducated the day after.

Day | Learning | Man | Wisdom |

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Hal Borland, formally Harold Glen Borland

For all his learning or sophistication, man is still instinctively reaching toward that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning, but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn.

Learning | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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William J. Broad and Nicholas J. Wade

Finding facts in actuality is less rewarded than developing a theory of law that explains the facts, and herein lies an enticement. In making sense out of the unruly substance of nature, and in trying to get there first, a scientist is sometimes tempted to play fast and loose with the facts in order to make a theory look more compelling than it really is.

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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The miser is the man who starves himself, and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

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James Burgh

Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to which it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into; a turn to rural life, and a love of study.

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Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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Nicholas Murray Butler

Time was invented by Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

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William Ellery Channing

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

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