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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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All things are known to the soul.

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Blessed are those who have no talent!

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We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

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To Be is to live with God.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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