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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

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Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?

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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.

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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

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