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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time

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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

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

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You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

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What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

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In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

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