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Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.

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Genius is power, talent is applicability.

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Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

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The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. 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 godlike ease and power.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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a good reader makes a good book

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