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" A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. "
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" The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. "
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" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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" Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. "
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" The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. "
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" If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
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" Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. "
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" The reward of a thing well done is having done it. "
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" The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. "
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" God enters by a private door into every individual. "
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" A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. "
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" Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. "
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" Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. "
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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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" Every wall is a door. "
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" It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. "
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" The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. "
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" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "
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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
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" Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. "
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" Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. "
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" Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. "
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