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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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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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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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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Work
"If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow."
Truth
"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
Life
"The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it."
Truth
"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
Life
"There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman."
Man
"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
Philosophy
"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity."
Quality
"The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men."
Man
"The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most."
Thought
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