"The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind."
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"Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!"
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"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
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"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another."
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"If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?"
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"Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man."
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"It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations."
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"Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought."
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"The archenemy is the arch stupid!"
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"The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money."
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"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
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"Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them."
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"The purpose of man is in action not thought."
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"Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him."
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"All true work is sacred."
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"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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"To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph."
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"No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something."
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"A man lives by believing something."
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"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."
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