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The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

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In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.

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The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

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The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

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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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