"The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison."
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"Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable."
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"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
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"Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!"
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"Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune."
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"The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad."
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"Habit is the deepest law of human nature"
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"I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic."
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"All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale."
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"There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair."
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"What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it"
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"Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him."
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"Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles."
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"Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
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"Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men."
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"No violent extreme endures."
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"Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes."
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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
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"At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?"
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