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- Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that…
- There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
- Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
- The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
- All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with…
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a…
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
- The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always…
- All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
- The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts…
- Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
- You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.
- Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
- If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
- The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
- Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be…
- The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
- Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men,…
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