Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

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Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor., infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor...

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this...

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

Aristocracy is always cruel

Aristocracy is always cruel

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit...

Responsibility educates

Responsibility educates

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table...

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more

Actions lie louder than words.

Actions lie louder than words.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought,...

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought,...