What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.Norman Douglas
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
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