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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

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Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race.

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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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