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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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The religions we call false were once true.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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My hours are peaceful centuries.

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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.

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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

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The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

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Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

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And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

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A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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

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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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