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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

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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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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

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How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.

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The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

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Your work should be in praise of what you love.

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Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

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