As mens prayers are a disease of the will so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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We feed on genius great men exist that there might be greater men.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
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Self-truth is the essence of heroism.
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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