Poems List

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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