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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.
The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.
Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.
I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.
A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.
Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.
Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.