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Beautiful Thoughts Hardly Bring Us To God Until They Are Acted Upon. No One Can Have A True Idea Of Right Until He Does It.

Each Generation Takes A Special Pleasure In Removing The Household Gods Of Its Parents From Their Pedestals, And Consigning Them To The Cupboard.

Nobody Is Bored When He Is Trying To Make Something That Is Beautiful Or To Discover Something That Is True.

But The Instinct Of Hoarding, Like All Other Instincts, Tends To Become Hypertrophied And Perverted; And With The Institution Of Private Property Comes Another Institution-that Of Plunder And Brigandage. In Private Life, No Motive Of Action Is At Present So Powerful And So Persistent As Acquisitiveness, Which Unlike Most Other Desires, Knows No Satiety. The Average Man Is Rich Enough When He Has A Little More Than He Has Got, And Not Till Then.

A Man May Build Himself A Throne Of Bayonets, But He Cannot Sit On It.