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But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ”
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour. ”
Happy the people whose annals are vacant. ”
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. ”
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. ”
Let each become all that he was created capable of being. ”
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ”
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ”
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. ”
No person is important enough to make me angry. ”