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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

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The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

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As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

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Nature tells every secret once.

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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God hides things by putting them near us.

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Popularity is for dolls.

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Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

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Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

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