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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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

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