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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

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

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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

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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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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.

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We can only obey our own polarity.

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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

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