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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Each mind has its own method.

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Continual failure is a road to success - if you have the strength to go on.

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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Do your thing, and I shall know you.

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The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

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We pass for what we are.

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To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason. They alone gave reason.

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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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