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We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

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Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

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America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

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Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.

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Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.

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If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

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