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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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For everything you gain, you lose something.

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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

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There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

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All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

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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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