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A good deal of our politics is physiological.

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Life is to be lived, not controlled.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

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The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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