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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

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The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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Morality is the object of government.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

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Necessity does everything well.

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