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People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

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By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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A man should give us a sense of mass.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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Keep your friendships in repair.

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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

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Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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