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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

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Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

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Look out! Behind you!

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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That man is idle who can do something better.

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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

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Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, and matures, Paints, and flavors, and allures, Bird and brier inly warms, Still enriches and transforms, Gives the reed and lily length, Adds to oak and oxen strength, Transforming what it doth infold, Life out of death, new out of old.

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Make youself necessary to someone.

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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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Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

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