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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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Intemperance is the only vulgarity.

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Every wall is a door.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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