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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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