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" Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. "

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

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" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "

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" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "

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" Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated. "

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" Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. "

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" Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. "

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" Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. "

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" We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. "

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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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" People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. "

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" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "

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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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" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

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" A man is what he thinks about all day long. "

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" Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. "

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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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" Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. "

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" Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. "

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