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We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

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Meek young men grow up in libraries.

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

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

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.

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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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