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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

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The lover of letters loves power too.

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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

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Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

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Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

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The pest of society is egotists.

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Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

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The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

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The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.

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The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

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