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Sorrow makes us all children again.

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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

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If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

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