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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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

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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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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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In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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