You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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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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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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