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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

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When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

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All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

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The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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You can take better care of your secret than another can.

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We expect a great man to be a good reader.

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Postpone not your life.

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.

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We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

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Build therefore your own world.

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Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

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We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

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