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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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The dearest events are summer-rain.

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Our moods do not believe in each other.

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Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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Insist upon yourself. Be original.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

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Genius is its own end.

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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

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

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Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

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When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

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