"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist."
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"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
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"Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Endurance is patience concentrated."
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
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"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."
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"A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope."
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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
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"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none."
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"These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame."
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"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death."
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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
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"When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances."
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"No pressure, no diamonds."
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"Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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"We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people."
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"A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things."
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"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
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