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

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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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The virtue in most request is conformity.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

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The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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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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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

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