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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

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Power and speed be hands and feet.

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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

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I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.

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A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.

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The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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People who know how to act are never preachers.

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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

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We pass for what we are.

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Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

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