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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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No sensible person ever made an apology.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

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[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Let us leave hurry to slaves.

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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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