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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.

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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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We never touch but at points.

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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

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Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.

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