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"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind." -
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Frank Moore Colby
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Top 5 quotes from Frank Moore Colby
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."
"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring."
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
Top 5 quotes from Thinking
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
"I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses."
"What once was thought can never be unthought."
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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