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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.

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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.

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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.

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The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

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