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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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It is one soul which animates all men.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

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The primary wisdom is intuition.

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We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

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The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

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Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

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