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Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

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That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

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The best of life is conversation.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

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