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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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Doing well is a result of doing good.

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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

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How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

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