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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

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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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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

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All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

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I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

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Love is the essence of God.

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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

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All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

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