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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."
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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."
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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."
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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
Politics
"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
Wisdom
"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
Humility
"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."
Science
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
Truth
"I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."
Motivation
"We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same."
Friendship
"Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical."
Philosophy
"I heard the little bird say so."
Nature
"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
Genius
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