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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

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a good reader makes a good book

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

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Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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When half-gods go The gods arrive.

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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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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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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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