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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

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Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

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Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

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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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I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

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The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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