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" If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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" It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. "
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" Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass. "
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" Power and speed be hands and feet. "
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" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "
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" An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. "
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" It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. "
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" We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. "
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" O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. "
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" The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
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" What is a farm but a mute gospel? "
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" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
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" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
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" As soon as there is life there is danger. "
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" I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. "
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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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" Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. "
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" We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. "
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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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" I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well. "
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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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" Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. "
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" Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. "
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" There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. "
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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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