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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Our thinking is a pious reception.

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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

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In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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