The prevalent fear

The prevalent fear
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
  

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Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.