Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

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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 for sale.

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