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God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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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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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

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Truth is the summit of being.

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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.

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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

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Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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Our best thoughts come from others.

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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