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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

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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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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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He is great who confers the most benefits.

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Earth endures; Stars abide.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.

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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

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I am become a transparent eyeball.

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But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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