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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

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For beauty is God's handwriting...A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

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