"There are remedies for all things but death."
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"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope."
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"Speech is of time, silence is of eternity."
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"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"
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"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."
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"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
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"For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing."
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"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."
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"Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes."
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"Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?"
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"Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom."
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
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"The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable."
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"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government."
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"Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon."
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"A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads."
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"We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness."
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"Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted."
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