"The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world."
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"Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs."
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"Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character."
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"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise."
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"When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new."
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"A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages."
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"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."
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"though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
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"My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all."
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"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
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"One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success."
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"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."
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"But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds."
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"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread."
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"The greatest genius is the most indebted person."
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"The people are to be taken in very small doses."
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"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it."
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"Invention breeds invention."
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"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."
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"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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