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You can take better care of your secret than another can. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. View quote
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art. View quote
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. View quote
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book. View quote
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. View quote
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We are students of words we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. View quote
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Make yourself necessary to someone. View quote
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I do this not selfishly, but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. View quote
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. View quote
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. View quote
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Every man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value. View quote
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. View quote
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel. View quote
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Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. View quote
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. View quote
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These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. View quote
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, - else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. View quote
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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. View quote
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In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
On the other hand, the law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. View quote
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The inviolate spirit turns their spite against the wrongdoers. The martyr cannot be dishonored. View quote
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Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities, as to individuals, when the truth is seen, and the martyrs are justified. View quote
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Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. View quote
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