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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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The education of the will is the object of our existence.

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America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages such as say and do not, overlooking the fact, that some men, namely, poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression, and confounds them with those whose province is action, but who quit to imitate the sayers.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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