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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.: Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986), Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.: Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)

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