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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."
Man
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
Legacy
"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time."
Time
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones."
Man
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Politics
"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives."
Man
"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."
Man
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
Courage
"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."
Time
"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."
Love
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