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

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.

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A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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