"One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor."
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"A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet."
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"Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser."
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"Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!"
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"Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ."
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"It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts."
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"Leaders: Captains of industry."
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"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
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"Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner."
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"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
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"Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property."
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"The age of miracles is forever here."
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"It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed."
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"What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words."
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"Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh."
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"The press is the fourth estate of the realm."
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"They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here."
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"Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by."
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"Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES."
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"Custom doth make dotards of us all."
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