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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

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It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form.

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Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

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It is not an arbitrary "decree of God," but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

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The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

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Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

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The never-ending task of self improvement.

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No society can ever be so large as one man.

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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

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Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

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