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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

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The best of life is conversation.

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I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.

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But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.

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You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

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