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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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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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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

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