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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

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And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

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Bells, the poor man's only music.

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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

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To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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