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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

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Friendship buys friendship.

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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.

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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

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So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

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