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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
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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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"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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"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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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."
Peace
"Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step."
Life
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
Labor
"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."
Life
"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them."
Man
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
Possibility
"Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up."
Man
"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own."
Knowledge
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
Man
"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
Nature
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