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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

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When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

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Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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The world belongs to the energetic.

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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

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It is very certain that the strong British race which has now overrun much of this continent, must also overrun [Texas], and Mexico and Oregon also, and it will in the course of ages be of small import by what particular occasions and methods it was done.

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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

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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

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