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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.

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Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

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Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

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Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

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