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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

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We find in life exactly what we put into it

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

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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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Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

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Nature hates calculators.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

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Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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