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

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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

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We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

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Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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A man is a god in ruins.

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...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

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