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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

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Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

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