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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

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I like people who like Plato.

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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats andclothes you have worn out.

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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