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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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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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"For tis not in mere death that men die most."
Death
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
Reading
"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
Love
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
Life
"Since when was genius found respectable?"
Genius
"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
Life
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
Love
"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all."
Ambition
"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
Love
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
Earth
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