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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

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In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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All the great ages have been ages of belief.

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Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

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