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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.

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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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God hid the whole world in thy heart.

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Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

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