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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

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