Patriotism is not

Patriotism is not
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
  

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Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.
Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Anempty sack cannot stand up.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.
Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.
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.