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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

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Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

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It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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