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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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