"The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."
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"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is."
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"I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest."
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"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."
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"The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein."
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"Pride and weakness are Siamese twins."
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"I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly."
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"I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife."
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"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy."
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"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."
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"For only by unlearning Wisdom comes."
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"Endurance is the crowning quality."
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"The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch."
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"And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak."
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"That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing."
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"In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."
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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself."
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