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| It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Hitch your wagon to a star. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. | [▲] | [▼] |
| All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. | [▲] | [▼] |
| All mankind loves a lover. | [▲] | [▼] |
| You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius. | [▲] | [▼] |
| 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. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A good indignation brings out all one's powers. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. | [▲] | [▼] |
| To fill the hour - that is happiness. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. | [▲] | [▼] |
| I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only way to have a friend is to be one. | [▲] | [▼] |