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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

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Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

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Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

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