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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.

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Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

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We have more than we use.

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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Thoughts rule the world.

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