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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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The virtue of books is to be readable.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

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Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

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He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

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The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon.

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