"Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself."
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"Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man."
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"He that has done nothing has known nothing."
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."
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"No age seemed the age of romance to itself."
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"A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures."
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"When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!"
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"Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?"
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"God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell."
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"There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed."
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"The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief"
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"The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it."
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"A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity."
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"There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong."
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"Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them."
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"The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough."
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"Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world."
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"The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself."
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"The great soul of this world is just."
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"Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious."
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