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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

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We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

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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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Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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[T]omorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day ... is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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People say law but they mean wealth.

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What you are comes to you.

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

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The soul knows no persons.

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