The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

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Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.'

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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

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Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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