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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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A great man is always willing to be little.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

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Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

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