Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
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War   
Principle   
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Capitalism   
Good   
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Friendship   
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear   
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Genius   
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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
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Food   
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Wisdom   
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
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Wisdom   
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
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War   
Politics   
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.
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Talent   
Mankind   
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Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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Friendship   
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Life   
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
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Education   
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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Progress   
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Friendship   
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If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
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Reading   
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Success   
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Honor   
Work:
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Americans   
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
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Art   
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