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For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

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Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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