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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

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What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

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