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"The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs." »Thomas a Kempis
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"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." »Tryon Edwards
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"A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
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"The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties." »Schopenhauer
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings..." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure." »Author Unknown
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