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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

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Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

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America means opportunity, freedom, power.

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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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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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We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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