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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

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Therefore trust to thy heart and to what the world calls illusions.

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did...

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and...

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Method is more important than strength when you wish to control your...

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when...

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we...

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to...

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it...

When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Each morning sees some task begun each evening sees it close Something...

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to...

There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion That if by...

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing only a signal...

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten...

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a...

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each...

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and...

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and...

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but...

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.

Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve...

However things may seem no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

The love of learning the sequestered nooks And all the sweet serenity of...

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but...

All things must change to something new to something strange.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Resolve and thou art free.

For his heart was in his work and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself though in another dress...