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 In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.  Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay. People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. Let they child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another. Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything. Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. - Terence The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. To understand is to forgive, even oneself. Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. 
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