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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

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Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.

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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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Life is our dictionary.

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