The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
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Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.
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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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