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" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. "
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" Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. "
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" A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. "
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" Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. "
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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" Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man. "
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" In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. "
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" Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. "
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" An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. "
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" The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. "
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" The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. "
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" The faith that stands on authority is not faith. "
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" Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. "
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" Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. "
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" There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. "
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" Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. "
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" The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. "
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Explain
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" A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. "
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" Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. "
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Every Man
Lifetime
" Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. "
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Grace
" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "
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" The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. "
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" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "
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" To be great is to be misunderstood. "
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" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
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" Always do what you are afraid to do. "
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Always
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" Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. "
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" When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. "
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