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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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Every noble activity makes room for itself.

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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Children are all foreigners.

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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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