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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

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When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

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Always scorn appearances and you always may.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

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When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

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Some people are born very far from home.

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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

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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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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

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

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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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

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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

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Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.

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