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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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I like people who like Plato.

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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

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