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" There is no great genius without some touch of madness. "

" The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. "

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" You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. "

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" The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities. "

" Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. "

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" We are what we believe we are. "

" A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. "

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" Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. "