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The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Men are better than this theology.

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Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.

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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

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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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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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

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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

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Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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The best political economy is the care and culture of men; for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.

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Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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