"Our best thoughts come from others."
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."
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"No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory."
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"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
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"The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
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"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself."
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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
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"There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation."
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"It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book."
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"That man is idle who can do something better."
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"The only prudence in life is concentration."
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"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
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"The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality."
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"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
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"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
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"I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."
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"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."
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"Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology."
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"We do not want actions, but men; not a chemical drop of water, but rain; the spirit that sheds and showers actions, countless, endless actions."
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"You cannot do a kindness too soon."
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