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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

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All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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The hero is he who is immovably centered.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

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