Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
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Learning is pedantry, wit, impertinence, virtue itself looked like weakness, and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years
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A mind too active is no mind at all
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength
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An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians
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The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power
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A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left over for the other purposes; but those whose livelihood is assured do not, on that account, cease to be active
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While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not end until Nov. 30,.. We have been extremely fortunate this time around, but this is an active hurricane season and more named storms are likely.
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Because the ED is the most common medical setting for diagnosing and treating anaphylaxis, advances in anaphylaxis management will need the active participation of emergency medicine clinicians and researchers
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Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.
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It's just a situation where he's run out of time on PUP active status. He had some more surgery done on that knee. They took out a plate and screws. Both (head coach Dick Vermeil) and I saw it and it was pretty substantial. I don't know how he moved around with that.
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What we're trying to do is get people.. To become more active in working with their legislators back home, and with their members in Congress so we can get some of these gun safety measures passed
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We have more than that, but we're actively working for about six clients, some more active than others. It's a real challenge. It's a good challenge to figure out how to juggle everything.
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Enceladus is surprisingly warm, internally fractured and active..
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It's still active. We're not reporting any containment of the fires just yet.
The officials told me that they got locked up and both of them were too active with their arms or their feet in a negative way, and said they are not going to be able to play anymore. I haven't had a chance to talk to Joe and I am not going to pass judgment until I see the video tape and talk to him.
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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being drawn toward. Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. Love creates righteousness, or justice, here on earth. To make love is to make justice. As advocates and activists for justice know, loving involves struggle, resistance, risk. People working today on behalf of women, blacks, lesbians and gay men, the aging, the poor in this country and elsewhere know that making justice is not a warm
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