He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
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Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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Habitat of castle gray, Creeping thing in sober way, Visible sage mechanician, Skillfulest arithmetician.
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