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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

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You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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