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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

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The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

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A man is related to all nature.

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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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Every advantage has its tax.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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