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A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

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The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

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There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

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You are constantly invited to be what you are.

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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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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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The borrower runs in his own debt.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

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I like the church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled churchman be.

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From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

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A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

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A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

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