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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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People only see what they are prepared to see.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.

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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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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

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