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Life is our dictionary.

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

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Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

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The years in your life are less important than the life in your years.

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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

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We wake from one dream into another dream.

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Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!

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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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It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

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A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

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