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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

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Humility is the secret of the wise.

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Necessity does everything well.

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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

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At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

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The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

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