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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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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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Great men are sincere.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.

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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.

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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 things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people that did not rank subordination and discipline among the signal virtues. Subjection to moods is the mark of a deteriorating morality. There is no baser servitude than that of the man whose caprices are his masters, and a nation composed of such men could not long preserve its liberties.

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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

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I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

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