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«Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.»
«Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.»
«There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other.»
«Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.»
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
«The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.»
«The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear»
«The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.»
«Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be learning how to darn socks»
«There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all occasions»