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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.

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I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.

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Do what you're afraid to do.

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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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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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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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

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