I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSON
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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