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All Quotes Collection
"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
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"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
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"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."
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"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."
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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
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"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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"The perception of beauty is a moral test."
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
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"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
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"It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves."
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"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
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"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
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"The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth."
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"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
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"After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization."
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
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"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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