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To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole...
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God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just...
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a...
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There’s folks ‘ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i’...
Quote #13788
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
Quote #9519
What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was...
Quote #18951
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives...
Quote #9284
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
Quote #7310
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by...