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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

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The poor are only they who feel poor.

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We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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