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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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Personal Development
"Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way."
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"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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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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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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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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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Death
"Water is the driving force of all nature."
Nature
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
Nature
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Art
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
Mind
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
Life
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
Nature
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Thought
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
Wisdom
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
Beginning
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