"Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
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"The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour."
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"There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."
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"My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face."
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"If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused."
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"To be a man is to be a nonconformist."
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"We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!"
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"The great will not condescend to take anything seriously."
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"If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration."
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"Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear."
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"Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action."
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"Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation."
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"There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name."
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"Men in all ways are better than they seem."
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"Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us."
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"Character teaches above our wills."
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"A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality."
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"If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal."
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