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Man is a substance clad in shadows.

- John Sterling

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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

- John Sterling

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

- John Sterling

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

- John Sterling

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

- John Sterling

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

- John Sterling

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

- John Sterling

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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

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