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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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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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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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