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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

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Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

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Obedience alone gives the right to command.

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Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

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The hero is he who is immovably centered.

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Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

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Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.

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If the race is good, so is the place.

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No book was ever written down by any but itself.

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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

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