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" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Him
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" The method of nature: who could ever analyze it? "
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" Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. "
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Mother
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" Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. "
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Us
Silent
" We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. "
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See
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" All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. "
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" There is an optical illusion about every person we meet. "
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About
" The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. "
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" We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. "
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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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Mean
" In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise. "
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Some Men
Society
" A good indignation brings out all one's powers. "
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Brings
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" Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. "
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Treat
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" A man is what he thinks about all day long. "
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About
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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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Live
" Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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World
Great
" Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. "
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Thing
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" We acquire the strength we have overcome. "
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Strength
Overcome
" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "
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Truth Is
Doubt
" Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. "
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Nature
Always
Same
" The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
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Wisdom
See
" No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. "
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Without
Man
" Good men must not obey the laws too well. "
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Men
Good Men
Laws
" Cause and effect are two sides of one fact. "
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Cause
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" Pictures must not be too picturesque. "
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Picturesque
Too
" Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Needs
Every Man
Lifetime
" 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. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tree
Maturity
Seed
" A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. "
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House
Now
Rest
" If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. "
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Path
Door
" The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. "
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Prison
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" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "
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Temptation
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