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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

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What potent blood hath modest May.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

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Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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