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Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

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For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

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The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.

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The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

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The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.

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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

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