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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored

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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem. These varieties are lost sight of at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

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Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

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