The highest virtue is always against the law.
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of good manners is self-reliance.
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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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