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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?

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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

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Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right.

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So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.

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The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

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