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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.

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There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.

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Every natural action is graceful.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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