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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

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A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

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The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

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Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

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A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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