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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper; a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table; and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.

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We pass for what we are.

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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

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One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

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Tis good-will makes intelligence.

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The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

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The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

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The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

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Thought makes everything fit for use.

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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong

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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

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