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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

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Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

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He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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Every great man is unique.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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