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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

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We go to Europe to be Americanized.

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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

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Real action is in silent moments.

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Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

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Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.

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Our thinking is a pious reception.

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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

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

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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.

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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

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The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

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There is more in every person's soul than we think.

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