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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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