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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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