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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“since our leading men think themselves in a seventh heaven, if there are bearded mullets in their fish-ponds that will come to hand for food, and neglect everything else, do not you think that I am doing no mean service if I secure that those who have the power, should not have the will, to do any harm?”

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul.”

“Do every deed, speak every word, think every thought in the knowledge that you may end your days any moment.”

“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

“Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“We have watered the trees that blossom in the summer-time. Now let's sprinkle those whose flowering-time is past. That will be a better deed, because we shall not be working for a reward.”

“Grief must be shared to be endured.”

“To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.”

“Waste not what remains of life in consideration about others, when it makes not for the common good.”

“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”

“Order not your life as though you had ten thousand years to live. Fate hangs over you. While you live, while yet you may, be good.”

“Whatever is beautiful at all is beautiful in itself. Its beauty ends there, and praise has no part in it.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”

“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.”

“As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.”

“Let no action be done at random, nor otherwise than in complete accordance with the principles involved.”

“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”

“They are such fools that they seem to expect that, though the Republic is lost, their fish-ponds will be safe.”

“A thought is as vivid as an act, to a lover.”

“Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

“The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution.”

“Cornered vessel without corners, strange cornered vessel, strange cornered vessel.”

“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

“I am not concerned that I have no place; I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

“I think, therefore I am.”

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me' -- in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”