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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.



Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.



Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices



Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices



The basis of good manners is self-reliance.



There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.



The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.



Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.



Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.



Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.



The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.



They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.



Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.



We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.



Culture is one thing and varnish is another.







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