“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men”
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“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”
“There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude”
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”
“All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good”
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship”
“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else”
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do”
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach”
“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth”
“One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands”
““Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writing”
“The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them”
“Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him”
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds”
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains”
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it”
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence”