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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.

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Every man is grave alone.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

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