The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

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Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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