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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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Power dwells with cheerfulness.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

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Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

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