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History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

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The finest wits have their sediment.

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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

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Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

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