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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

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The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

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Let us leave hurry to slaves.

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Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

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Whatever you do, you need courage.

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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When there is no vision, people perish.

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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

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The life of truth is cold.

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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

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All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

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