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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

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It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

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The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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