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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

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Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

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All history is biography.

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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

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There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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