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There is properly no history, only biography.

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Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

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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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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

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My life is not an apology, but a life.

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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

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How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.

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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

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The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

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There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

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If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your bookshelf and your task. When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you, and you shall accept that loathsomeness with joy. The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.

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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

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It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

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A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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