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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The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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