The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.Dean Inge
Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a spark at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
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