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What potent blood hath modest May.

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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

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Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

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The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

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Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

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Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

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The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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