"Wealth and want equally harden the human heart..."
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"All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life."
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"The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him."
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"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."
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"Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it."
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"It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work."
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"Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man."
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"The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties."
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"Intellect is stronger than cannon."
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"Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap."
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"Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive."
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"No man is so great as mankind."
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"Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at."
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"Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."
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"The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker."
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"The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss."
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"Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so."
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"Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact."
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"Greatness is its own torment."
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"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
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