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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

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There is always a best way of doing everything.

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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

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Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

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The rain has spoiled the farmer's day; Shall sorrow put my books away? Thereby are two days lost.

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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.

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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

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