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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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Morality is the object of government.

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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

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We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

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Activity is contagious.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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All history is biography.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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