One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.
Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.
Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.
Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.