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The need poisons the evils it cannot heal.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.
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The world is a great dance where everyone is masked.
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If people did not complement one another there would be little society.
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The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Pull one hair and the whole body is affected.
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Few men are more to be shunned than those who have time, but know not how to improve it, and so spend it in wasting the time of their neighbors, talking forever though they have nothing to say.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
A vision without resources is an hallucination.