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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

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How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

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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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First be a good animal.

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

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The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

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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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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

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We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

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A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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Music causes us to think eloquently.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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