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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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The highest Beauty should be plain set.

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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

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A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.

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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

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Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.

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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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There is one mind common to all individual men

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