"The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor."
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"Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state."
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"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."
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"Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."
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"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
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"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."
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"Every man has a coward and hero in his soul."
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"Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might."
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
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"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."
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"We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility."
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"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule."
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"Worship is transcendent wonder."
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"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
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"The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off."
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."
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"History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background."
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