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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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No man can have society upon his own terms.

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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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

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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

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All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

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