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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

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What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the States, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "He got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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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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Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

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All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.

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