A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Subject:
Character   
Money   
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Etiquette   
Source: Essays, First Series
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The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Subject:
Civilization   
Nation   
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Subject:
Genius   
Common Sense   
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
Subject:
Arrogance   
Human Nature   
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Subject:
Freedom   
Thinking   
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Subject:
Beauty   
Flower   
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New York is a sucked orange.
Subject:
America   
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Subject:
Motivational   
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Subject:
Truth   
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Action   
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Subject:
Genius   
Philosophical   
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Subject:
Freedom   
Desires   
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In the vaunted works of art, the master-stroke is nature's part.
Subject:
Nature   
Art   
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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Subject:
Character   
Beauty   
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Subject:
Luck   
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Subject:
Poetry   
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Subject:
Doubt   
Teaching   
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Subject:
Politics   
Politicians   
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