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"Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper."
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"Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar."
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"Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours."
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"Courage consists in equality to the problem before us."
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"Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit."
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"We are prisoners of ideas."
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents."
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"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."
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"The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."
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"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
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