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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, reallyshow very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.

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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

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Every man is grave alone.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

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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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Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

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