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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

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

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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

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Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

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The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

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But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

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