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"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
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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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"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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"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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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent."
Man
"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility."
Independence
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world."
Leap
"Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted."
Man
"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them."
Power
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
Man
"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling."
Thought
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
Money
"The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty."
People
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
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