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John Ruskin:I believe the first test of a truly


I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
by John Ruskin


Marcus Aurelius:Nothing has such power to


Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
by Marcus Aurelius


William Hazlitt:The truly proud man knows


The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
by William Hazlitt


George Santayana:A string of excited, fugitive,


A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
by George Santayana


Charles Darwin:History shows that the human


History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained.
by Charles Darwin


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