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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

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For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

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It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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