"The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat."
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"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
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"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."
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"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages"
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
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"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."
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"The virtue in most request is conformity."
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"All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature."
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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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"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."
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"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun."
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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force."
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"Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues."
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"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should."
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"If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak."
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"The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps."
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"I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me."
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"But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself."
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