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" Power and speed be hands and feet. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? "
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" There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream. "
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" Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. "
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" The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
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" Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. "
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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 earth laughs in flowers. "
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" Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. "
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" Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. "
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" No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. "
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" The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. "
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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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" A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. "
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" In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. "
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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. "
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" The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
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" You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. "
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" One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. "
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" Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. "
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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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" When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. "
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