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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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A man should give us a sense of mass.

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Tart, cathartic virtue.

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