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I don't measure America by its achievement, but by its potential.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded in the first man.
Yours are no common feet.
The lawyer don't know what it is he's buying:
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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either dire ...
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potential ...
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your ...
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
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