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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

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Power educates the potentate.

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

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