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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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All promise outruns performance.

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

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

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Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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