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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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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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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

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Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

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In the woods we return to reason and faith.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

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