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English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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Ability without honor has no value.

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Men in all ways are better than they seem.

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It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, - means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,-one as much as another. All things are disolved to ther center by thier cause.

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But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

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An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

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