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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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Liberty is a slow fruit.

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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

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

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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America is another name for opportunity.

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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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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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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