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Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

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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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As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

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That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself

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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. 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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The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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