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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

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He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

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Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

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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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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

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A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.

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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

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It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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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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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.

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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

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