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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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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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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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Men are better than this theology.

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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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Nature abhors the old.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

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I see my trees repair their boughs.

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