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The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

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We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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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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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

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A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

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All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

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A man should carry nature in his head.

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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

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