Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Nations What are nations Tartars and Huns and Chinamen Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.Henry David Thoreau
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it gets out of its way.
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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