The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
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No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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