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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

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The gentleman is a man of truth.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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A great teacher makes hard things easy.

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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