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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

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It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

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