"O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy."
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"Every man I meet is in some way my superior..."
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"Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought."
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"When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear."
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"A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day."
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"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings"
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"Self-command is the main elegance."
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"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars."
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"Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint."
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"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"
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"What a new face courage puts on everything!"
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"To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation."
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"Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has noprescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."
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"I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man."
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"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."
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"A man of no conversation should smoke."
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"Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time."
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"We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision."
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."
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"It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances."
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