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But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

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The field cannot be seen from within the field.

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Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Thought is the seed of action.

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

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History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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