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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

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Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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