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When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

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Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

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A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

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The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

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Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.

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