FridaySep 18, 2026
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of God on his world about us. He has inscribed his thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have, these many thousand years, been seeking to understand.
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
There is what I call the American idea.... This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
No man is so great as mankind.
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
A democracy, that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
All men desire to be immortal.
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