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

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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

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Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

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A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray.

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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

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The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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