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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

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A man cannot speak but he judges himself

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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

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Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

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The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.

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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.

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The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold

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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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