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He has taught us the truth, very simple, but somehow nobody ever got hold of it till he did, that virtue and brave living, and helping other men, can be made to grow by geometrical progression.
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This quote conveys a simple yet powerful truth about the potential for virtue and altruism to grow exponentially.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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