Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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