Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
Success has made failures of many men.
Success has made failures of many men.
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
