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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Deeds and Good Deeds
T. S. Eliot

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
Heroes and Heroism
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Obedience
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
Trust
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Choice
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Insanity
Nathaniel Emmons

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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
Logic
Euripides

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Life and Living
Joanna Field

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Reason
Henry Fielding

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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Thoughts and Thinking
Paul Fix

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There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded.
Men
Robert B. Fleming

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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
Work
Henry Ford

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Conflict
Benjamin Franklin

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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Faith
Benjamin Franklin

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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
Persuasion
Benjamin Franklin

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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Worry
Robert Frost

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A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Reason
James A. Froude

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Fuller

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.
Life and Living
Clark Gable

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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Reason
Gaius C. Gallus

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Faith
Mahatma Gandhi

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I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
Reason
Elizabeth Gaskell

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Youth
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.
Uncategorised
David Lloyd George

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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Imagination
Ralph Gerard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun