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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

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The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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