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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

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Each mind has its own method.

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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

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If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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