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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

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A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.

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To be great, you must be misunderstood

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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Every man is grave alone.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

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