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The key to every man is his thought.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

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Society has no bribe for me.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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