I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- Topic: Action, Work
- Location: Red Rock Canyon
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.
