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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. - Thomas Carlyl

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. – Thomas Carlyle

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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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Persuasion
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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Courage
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. – John Quincy Adams

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Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. – Joseph Auslander

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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. – Charles Spurgeon

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. – Edward Young

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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