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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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The shot heard round the world.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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Our best history is still poetry.

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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

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One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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