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I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

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To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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You take a weakness and start making it stronger.. You don't have to build your strengths - that you already possess... It is your weakness that needs the exercise

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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Every man is grave alone.

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I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.

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Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

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Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

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For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

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