The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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Let us treat the men and women well treat them as if they were real perhaps they are.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or state, or letters and the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told. It lies in the man that is all anybody can tell you about it.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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