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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

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To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

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I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.

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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

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Do not follow where the path may lead.

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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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Souls are not saved in bundles.

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Common sense is as rare as genius.

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