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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

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The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

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Some will always be above others.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

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