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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need read more
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to read more
Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. read more
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.
Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
