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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

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Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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