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It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness.
It is better to light 1 candle
than to curse the darkness.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival read more
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all
others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Old things need not be therefore true,
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile read more
Old things need not be therefore true,
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!
Thought is borne of failure.
Thought is borne of failure.
