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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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