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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition of man with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.