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That is true Symbolism, where the more particular represents the more general, not as a dream or shade, but as a vivid, instantaneous revelation of the Inscrutable.
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Everything of an abstract or symbolic nature, as soon as it is challenged by realities, ends by consuming them and itself. So credit consumes both money and itself.
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Mastery often passes for egoism.
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With Protestants, as soon as good works cease and their merit is denied, sentimentality takes their place.
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
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The use of mottoes is to indicate something we have not attained, but strive to attain. It is right to keep them always before our eyes.
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‘If a man cannot lift a stone himself, let him leave it, even though he has some one to help him.’
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Despotism promotes general self-government, because from top to bottom it makes the individual responsible, and so produces the highest degree of activity.
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A man must pay dear for his errors if he wishes to get rid of them, and even then he is lucky.
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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School itself is the only true preparation for it.
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Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigour.
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Every one suffers who does not work for himself. A man works for others to have them share in his joy.
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Men’s prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common-sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.