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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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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

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The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

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

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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

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