If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Thenall goes well he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good bye, proud world I'm going home Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle it would whip a right it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.
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