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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

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The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

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Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

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Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.

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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

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Civilization depends on morality.

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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

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