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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
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