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Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

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The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

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