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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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It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

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The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

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A moment is a concentrated eternity.

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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

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The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

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No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

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The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

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We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

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A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

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