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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. Thus they become, as in the ancient fable, the harnessed steeds that bear the chariot of the sun.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunder-storm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
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What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
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Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance.
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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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Nothing is so sensitive as love—and the greater, the more sensitive. It cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed from out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
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Born:
June 24, 1813
Died:
March 8, 1887
(aged 73)
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