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" It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. "
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" Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? "
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" As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. "
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" It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. "
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