When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.Thomas Carlyle
No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men.
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Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will show you the kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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