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Our distrust is very expensive.

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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.

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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

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Genius Borrows nobly.

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Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

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He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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I think no virtue goes with size.

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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

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I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

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Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.

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To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.

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