"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
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"The devil has his elect."
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"Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind."
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"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
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"There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible."
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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other."
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"Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him."
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"Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other."
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"A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer."
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"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."
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"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books."
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"The end of man is action."
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"Thirty millions, mostly fools."
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"For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion."
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"A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road."
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"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."
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"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one."
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"Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late."
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"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand.""
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