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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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Every reform was once a private opinion.

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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

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Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

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Be not the slave of your own past.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

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A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him,Mnot bodily, the whole circle of his friends, but atmospherically. He should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation, which his daily associates draw him to, else he is shorn of his best beams, and will be an orphan in the merriest club.

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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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When it's dark enough men see stars.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

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