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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

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Nature is upheld by antagonism.

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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.

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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

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Be an opener of doors

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