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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.

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Man is the dwarf of himself.

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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

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There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

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To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that they are imprisoned in those places. Each animal out of its habitat would starve. To the physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ. A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk, and a dancer could not exchange functions. And thus we are victims of adaptation.

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

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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

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There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.

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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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