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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Antidote Enthusiasm Great Poison
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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Prayer is man's greatest power!

Greatest Man Power Prayer
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Baffled Cases Facts Imagination
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Achievement Point Purpose Starting
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Ambiguity City Had Pass
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Defense Opulence Superior
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Animals Another Barter Common
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Been Defense Given Innocence
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Generosity Humanity Man Virtue
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Common Complaint Money More
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

AllThings First Labor Money
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Achievement Confidence Done Faith
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Being Blind Having Only
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Things Beautiful Best Cannot
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Read Hope Strange
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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Fail Prodigy
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
Read Frequently Quest Original
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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Will Fear
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It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

Hope Living
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Achieved Ambition Cannot Character
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Also Although Full Overcoming
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We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Anything Enough Long Stick
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Always Bend Eye Head
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Brave Could Joy Learn
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Cannot Face Keep See
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

About Among Breeze Flowers
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Anything Enemy Never Our
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge Light Love Vision
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While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Among Cannot Done Saying
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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Apathy Beings Cure Evils
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
Education Highest Result Tolerance
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Beautiful Delight Flower Fragrance
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone Better Dark Friend
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Consent Creep Feels Impulse
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It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Everything Hard Interest Nothing
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Dark Experience Half Hour
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Aggregate Along Also Each
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