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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

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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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The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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All men are poets at heart.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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

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We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.

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All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.

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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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