"Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how"
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"If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature."
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"A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets."
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"Souls are made of dawn-stuff and starshine."
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"The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how."
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"When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it."
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"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
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"If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it."
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"Art is nothing; it's a way."
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"Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better"
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"There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved."
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"Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief."
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"Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are."
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"Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place."
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"Action is thought tempered by illusion."
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"Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation."
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"Habit is a form of exercise."
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"You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think."
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"A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life."
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"The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible."
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