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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

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The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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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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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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A man is related to all nature.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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