"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

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"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

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"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."

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"You can't, if you can't feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You'll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other's scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration's to your taste,But you'll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart's space."

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"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."

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"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."

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