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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

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A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.

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I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

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It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

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It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.

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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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