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"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
Work
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Being
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
Vision
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all."
Man
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest."
Thought
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
Vision
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is."
Experience
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
God
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
Science
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
Life
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