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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

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Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.

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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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The hero is he who is immovably centered.

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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

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If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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