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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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The soul knows no persons.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.

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We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

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Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

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This ennui, for which we Saxons had no name,--this word of France, has got a terrific significance. It shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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