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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

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The gentleman is a man of truth.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.

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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

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