The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEPassionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
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A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
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Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
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