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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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