Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
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To live fully is to be engaged in the passions of one's times.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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