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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

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In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

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Popularity is for dolls.

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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.

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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.

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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

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I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

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