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I am a part and parcel of God.

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

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In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.

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A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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