"I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth."
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"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble."
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"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another."
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"Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes."
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"Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind."
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"Imagination is a very high sort of seeing."
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"Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure."
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"Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men."
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"If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared."
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"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them."
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"In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class."
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"History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do."
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"When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied."
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"The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end."
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"Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result."
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"Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized."
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"Everyone I meet is in some way my superior."
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"You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time"
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"If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it."
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"O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!"
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