"Let us be poised, wise and our own today."
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"Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear."
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"A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands."
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"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won."
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"Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means"
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"The man who renounces himself, comes to himself."
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"We expect a great man to be a good reader."
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"Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book."
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"If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more."
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"People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself."
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"The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone."
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."
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"All necessary truth is its own evidence."
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"Beauty rests on necessities."
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"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."
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"Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings."
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"Life too near paralyses art."
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"The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid."
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"Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds."
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"Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong."
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