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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

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An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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Never read any book that is not a year old.

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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