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" Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. "
Sad
Great
Brotherhood
" Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. "
Poor
World
Professional
" A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. "
Fire
Burn
Live
" A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. "
Great
Principle
War
" Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. "
Improvement
Doubt
Progress
" Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. "
Exhausted
Reason
Where
" One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. "
Creation
Man
Miniature
" Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. "
Journey
Learning
Perfection
" The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. "
Cheerful
Different
Creation
" The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. "
Over
Sovereignty
Liberty
" The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold. "
Justice
Gold
Truth
" To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. "
Work
Brain
Brainy
" War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. "
Result
Series
Victory
" We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. "
Need
Light
Just
" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. "
World
Death
Alone
" Will is the dynamic soul-force. "
Dynamic
Will
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