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Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again.

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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.

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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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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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Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

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It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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All promise outruns performance.

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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

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