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The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

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The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

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In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

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Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

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It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

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The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

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Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

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The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation.

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