Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
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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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Man is a tool-using Animal.. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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A fair day's wages 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.
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