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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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I like people who can do things

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

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