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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

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Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

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Every advantage has its tax.

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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.

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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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