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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Nature has no compassion. It is, in the words of William Blake,..
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Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.
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Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
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Eric Hoffer |
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When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer |
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Eric Hoffer |
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No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Eric Hoffer |
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Eric Hoffer |
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The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer |
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Eric Hoffer |
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Eric Hoffer |
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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Eric Hoffer |
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There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
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Eric Hoffer |
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Eric Hoffer |
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Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Eric Hoffer |
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A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
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Eric Hoffer |
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Eric Hoffer |
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The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
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Eric Hoffer |
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A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader.
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