The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

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Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

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