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Man has will, but woman has her way.
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
[ Health ]
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
[ Prejudice ]
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
[ Doubt ]
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What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
[ Doctors ]
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Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
[ Society ]
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
[ Speech ]
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
[ Common Sense ]
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
[ Conversation ]
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.
[ Facts ]
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
[ Sin ]
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
[ Sin ]
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
[ Ability ]
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
[ Democracy ]
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
[ World ]
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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
[ Achievement ]
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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
[ Achievement ]
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
[ Cooperation ]
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
[ Praise ]
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
[ History ]
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