If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are respectable only as they respect.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all
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