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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

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No institution will be better than the institutor.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

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A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

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