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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

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Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number; But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. "Pass in, pass in," the angels say

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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

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The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

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The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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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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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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