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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

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It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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The world is all outside, it has no inside.

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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

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