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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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Invention breeds invention.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.

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Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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