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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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Life is a festival only to the wise.

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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

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Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground of other reading and hearing-that in large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

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