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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
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Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Loose ideas on the subject of business will not answer. It must be reduced to something of a science. It has its principles, upon a knowledge and an application of which, success in it mainly depends.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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