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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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