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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
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Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
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People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.
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People would rather be wrong than be different.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
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Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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