- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
- Devilish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.
- Grandest
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- Nov 07, 2020