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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

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For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

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The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

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Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

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How much finer things are in composition than alone.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

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Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

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The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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