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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

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The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

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Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

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It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

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As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

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He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

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There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

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The true ship is the ship builder.

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Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

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A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.

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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

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Who loses a day loses life.

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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

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