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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

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All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

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In spite of Virtue and the Muse, Nemesis will have her dues, And all our struggles and our toils Tighter wind the giant coils.

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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Every burned book enlightens the world.

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Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

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A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

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The city is recruited from the country.

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So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

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Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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