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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length, and not remember spite. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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