There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Whether we wish it our not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land.
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