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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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An empire is an immense egotism.

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It is time to be old To take in sail.

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Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

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Let there be worse cotton and better men.

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We are the prisoners of ideas.

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No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

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Children are all foreigners.

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A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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