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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

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

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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

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A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

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He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

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Morality is the object of government.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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True wit never made us laugh.

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