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Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.

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I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.

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