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“More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.”

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Jeff Greenfield is an American journalist born on June 10, 1943. He has had a rich career in the news industry, covering a wide range of topics including politics and culture. more

“To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.”

May Philosophy School Habit Observation Compare Reasoning Deficiency Combining

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“It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.”

Doe Age Given Progress Accomplish Old Age Characteristics Retrospect

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“Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.”

Knows Littles Doe Real Death Spirit Wish Known Teach Dying Sight Dull Unconsciousness

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

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“The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.”

Men Earth Fruit Finished Makers Finest

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.”

Ifs Knows Real Self Feelings Individual Prayer Praying Increase Depth Connected Devotion Chosen Formulas Inward

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.”

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Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

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