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" Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stone
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" Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. "
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" America is another name for opportunity. "
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" Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. "
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" Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "
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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "
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" As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. "
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" Hitch your wagon to a star. "
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" The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. "
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" It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. "
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" Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. "
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" A good indignation brings out all one's powers. "
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" God enters by a private door into every individual. "
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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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" Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. "
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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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" 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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Positive
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" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
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" Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about. "
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Doing
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" The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
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Man
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" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
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Volumes
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" Some books leave us free and some books make us free. "
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" We must be our own before we can be another's. "
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" The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. "
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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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" There is creative reading as well as creative writing. "
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Well
" The highest revelation is that God is in every man. "
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Every
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" There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. "
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" The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. "
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" Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. "
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