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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the stricter theunion, the smaller and the more pitiful he is. But leave him alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul, he will go up and down doing the works of a true member, and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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