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" Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation. "
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" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "
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" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. "
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" As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell. "
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" The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. "
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" Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. "
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" The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. "
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" The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. "
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" Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. "
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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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" The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. "
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" The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
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" A man is what he thinks about all day long. "
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" Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. "
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" We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more. "
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" Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. "
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" Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.' "
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" Reality is a sliding door. "
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" Revolutions go not backward. "
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "
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