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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "

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" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

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" Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. "

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" Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. "

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" Without electricity, the air would rot. "

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" The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. "

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" The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war. "

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" We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. "

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" We are always getting ready to live but never living. "

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" As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. "

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" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "

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" Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. "

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" The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

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" I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. "

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" The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. "

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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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" We aim above the mark to hit the mark. "

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" Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. "

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" What is a farm but a mute gospel? "

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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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