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Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

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There is always safety in valor.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.

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