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Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

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A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.

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Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.

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Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.

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Nature hates calculators.

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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