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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring



The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.



Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.



A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.



England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America.



Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.



The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.



Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca.



The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.



The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.



There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.



Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.



Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.



Wisdom comes by disillusionment.



An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.








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