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All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity. ”
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success. ”
The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. ”
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. ”
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it. ”
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ”
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ”
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ”
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ”
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. ”