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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

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Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

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Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

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a good reader makes a good book

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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