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As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Topic: Ability
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
Topic: Ability
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as
prejudicial to society.
- James Anthony Froude,
Topic: Crime
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects
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In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive
duty.
Topic: Duty
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
Topic: Experience
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic
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Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
Topic: Experience
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Topic: Experience
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Topic: Fear
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Topic: Fear
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.
Topic: Fear
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
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The moral system of the universe is like a document written in
alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
Topic: Morality
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and
provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Topic: Morality
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Divus Caesar
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Topic: Nobility
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every
assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
Topic: Philosophy
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection
upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so
long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to
fasten itself.
Topic: Reflection
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.
Topic: Solitude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and
mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Topic: Teaching
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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A boy is better unborn than untaught.
Topic: Teaching
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
theater.
Topic: Teaching
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Topic: Will
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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