No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only it is moral also a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe iThomas Carlyle
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
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