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Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

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Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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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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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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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

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