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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

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Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Every natural action is graceful.

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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

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Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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We never touch but at points.

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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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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