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"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
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"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."
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"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."
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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
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"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."
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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."
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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
Labor
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
Education
"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."
Finance
"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."
Money
"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
Art
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
Duty
"Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape."
Art
"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
Being
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."
Religion
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul."
Art
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