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Music and Wine are one.

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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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