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Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian... Imagination is not required in any high degree.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
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