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" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. "
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" Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. "
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" He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. "
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" There is a tendency for things to right themselves. "
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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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" We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. "
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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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" If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. "
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" Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. "
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" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "
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" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "
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" I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. "
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" As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. "
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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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" Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. "
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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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" Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time. "
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" To be great is to be misunderstood. "
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" The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. "
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" We are wiser than we know. "
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" Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. "
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" Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. "
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" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
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" A great man is always willing to be little. "
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" A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. "
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" We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe. "
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" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "
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" Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. "
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" The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. "
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