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Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

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Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

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He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

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They did not know it was impossible so they did it

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The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

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Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

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Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

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There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

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I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

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Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

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