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" When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

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" When one has taken root, one puts out branches. "

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Taken For Granted

" Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. "

" As long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. "

" The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. "

" On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality! "

" In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

" I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. "

" I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. "

" It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. "

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" It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words. "

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" How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! "

" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "