"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
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"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
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"We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream."
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"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
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"Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight."
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"As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions."
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"A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite."
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"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
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"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
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"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."
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"Calmness is always godlike."
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"Happy is the house that shelters a friend."
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"If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing."
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"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning."
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"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity."
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"We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education."
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"Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light."
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"Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me."
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"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going"
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"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
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