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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

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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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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall bethe happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that youshould. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust thatwhat is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moonwhatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. If you are noble, Iwill love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself byhypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truthwith me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

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Blame is safer than praise

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

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In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

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