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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Genius is intellect constructive.

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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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Build therefore your own world.

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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

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The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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