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Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

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Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.

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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.

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My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.

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Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

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Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

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The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

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Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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