"Every reform was once a private opinion."
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"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."
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"When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn."
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"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite."
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"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
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"All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view."
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"A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant."
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"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
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"In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
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"Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck."
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"There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment."
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"Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment."
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"What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All."
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"A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications."
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"Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul."
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"Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time."
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"There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress"
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall."
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"Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle."
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