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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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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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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

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With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

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One of our statesmen said, "The curse of this country is eloquent men."

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

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