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- If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such…
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
- Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
- The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
- Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of…
- I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the…
- Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of…
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of…
- We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
- What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
- Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or…
- When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
- We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we…
- Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
- Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment…
- The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
- If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
- You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be…
- Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in…
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