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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

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