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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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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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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing; are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.

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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.

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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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