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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

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We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

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Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.

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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful... and ...give thanks continuously.

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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

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We boil at different degrees.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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We never touch but at points.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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