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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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Every wall is a door.

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

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Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

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