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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Money often costs too much.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared 'that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow'.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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It is time to be old, To take in sail: - The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more!
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.