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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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A little praise goes a great ways.

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

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It's a luxury to be understood.

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.

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You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.

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The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

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In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

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