"For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer."
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"Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows."
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"My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls."
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"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows"
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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given."
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"There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire."
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"No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life."
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"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness."
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"Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile."
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"A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space."
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"Out of Eternity the new day is born; Into Eternity at night will return."
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"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
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"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."
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"The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear."
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"History: A distillation of rumor."
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"No person is important enough to make me angry."
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"We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth."
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"Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves."
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"Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.""
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"Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only."
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