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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

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We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

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Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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The shot heard round the world.

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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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