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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

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Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.

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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

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A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

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Life is a series of surprises.

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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.

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We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

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In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

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