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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?

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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

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