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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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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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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

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