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- It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol…
- When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may…
- I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
- On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows…
- Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
- This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.
- A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
- It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.
- The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
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