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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Man is a piece of the universe made alive

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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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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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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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Nature tells every secret once.

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