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If a man owns land, the land owns him.

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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

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

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

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Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

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The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

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Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

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My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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