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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

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The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

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Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

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The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

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The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

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Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

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No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

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A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.

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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

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The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

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Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

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Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

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