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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.

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Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

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Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

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Desire is possibility seeking expression.

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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

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