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The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

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What you set your heart upon, surely shall be yours.

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A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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