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A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

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A great teacher makes hard things easy.

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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

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Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.

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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.

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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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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

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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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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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

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I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

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All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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