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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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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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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

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To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

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A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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