"Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother."
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"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
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"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
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"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
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"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species."
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"True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall."
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"Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small."
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"Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else."
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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
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"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune."
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"Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
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"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
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"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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