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Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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The eye is easily frightened.

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The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

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When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

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Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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True wit never made us laugh.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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