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"We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure."
"Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself."
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."
"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life."
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
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