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Go west, young man.
Ease up, the play is over.
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
Common sense is very uncommon.
The way we do things is to begin.
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Money is more trouble than it is worth.
The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.
Talent without tact is only half talent.
Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.
Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.
A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.
Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.
Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.
I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.
Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.
Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.