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Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

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No institution will be better than the institutor.

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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.

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We pass for what we are.

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Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

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I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

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The years teach much which the days never know.

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