All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
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Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
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