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"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."
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"We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us."

"For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do."

"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."

"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."

"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."
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