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"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
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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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"We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes."
Man


"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."
Beauty


"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
Grief


"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
World


"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."
Admiration


"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
Nature


"The wise are above books."
Books


"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."
Love


"The stars that have most glory have no rest."
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