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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

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I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

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One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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