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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

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It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

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To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

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It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

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It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

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Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

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'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

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Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

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