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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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Find the journey's end in every step.

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Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

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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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There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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There is no true orator who is not a hero.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

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