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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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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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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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"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers."
Solitude

"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer."
Dance

"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life."
Life

"When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around."
Family

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."
Earth

"There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."
Man

"I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength."
Strength

"I cured with the power that came through me."
Power

"I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it."
Strength

"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself."
People
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