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God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

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My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

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Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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