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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Daniel Webster
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- Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 71.
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