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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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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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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

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