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We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.

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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

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If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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