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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

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Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

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Power educates the potentate.

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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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