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Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

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The hero is suffered to be himself.

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I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One.

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It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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