“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
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The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
