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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.

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Our distrust is very expensive.

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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

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Money often costs too much.

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The universe is the externalization of the soul.

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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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Society is a hospital of incurables.

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