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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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Necessity does everything well.

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