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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

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The language of the street is always strong.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

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All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

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When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

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