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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

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It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

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The finest wits have their sediment.

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To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

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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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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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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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If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

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Our prayers are prophets.

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None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

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The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

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The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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