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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

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Be a gift and a benediction.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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We boil at different degrees.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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