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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

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The surest poison is time.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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