In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest.
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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man
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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
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Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done single will justify you now.
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