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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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