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

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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension.

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

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The less government we have the better.

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Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

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There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

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