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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same exper...more

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You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for...more

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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any...more

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And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing.

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I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

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Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. ...[G]reat scholars are now as litt...more