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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

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Imitation cannot go above its model.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.

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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

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This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

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