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It's a luxury to be understood.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

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In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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The never-ending task of self improvement.

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The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

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