"It is better to suffer injustice than to do it."
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"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation."
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."
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"Let him be great, and love shall follow him."
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"Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?"
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"The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind."
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"Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you."
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"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."
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"Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy."
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"Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success."
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"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
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"Men are what their mothers made them."
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"What you are comes to you."
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"All the great speakers were bad speakers at first."
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"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
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"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm."
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"Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight."
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"A man is known by the books he reads."
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"Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge."
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"Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an"
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