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America is a country of young men.

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When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

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We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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