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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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Be a gift and a benediction.

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Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

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The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man.

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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave; and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.

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Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

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Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

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When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

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I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

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