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Travel is a fools paradise.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

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The first wealth is health.

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Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

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When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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