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The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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It is the eye which makes the horizon.

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

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The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

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The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

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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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New York is a sucked orange.

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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