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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime."

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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