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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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No violent extreme endures.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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