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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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Being is the great explainer.
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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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That government is best which governs least.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.