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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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A nation never falls but by suicide.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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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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Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

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