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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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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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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

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All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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The world is his who can see through its pretension.

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The key to every man is his thought.

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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My giant goes with me wherever I go.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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