Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Silenceis the mother of truth.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.
Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much