Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Human improvement is from within outward.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore to treat them as if thy were equal.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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