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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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Isolation must precede true society.

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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

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The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

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The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

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The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

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God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

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The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

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