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

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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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The force of character is cumulative.

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We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

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