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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.

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Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

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