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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

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Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

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Shallow men believe in luck.

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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