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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
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