"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."

Thought, Man, Posterity, Reputation

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"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."

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Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment."

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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."

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"Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican."

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"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."

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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

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"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."

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"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."

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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."

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"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."

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"In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her."

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"Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages."

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