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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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The rain comes when the wind calls.

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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

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