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The lover of letters loves power too.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

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Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

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

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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

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The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

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Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

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