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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.