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Be not the slave of your own past.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

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Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

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

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.

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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

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