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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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Churches and cities are the most wonderful solitudes.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
and waste its sweetness on the desert air.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14 -
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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