“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
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“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
“Active evil is better than passive good”
“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold”
“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains”
“The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities”
“Look twice before you leap”
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind”
“One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools”
“Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so”
“I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something”
“The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.”
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave”
“There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom”
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite”
“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”
“Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. ”
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid”