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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

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It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

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You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.

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Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

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Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

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