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" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. "
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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 faith that stands on authority is not faith. "
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" This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. "
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" We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. "
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" Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. "
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" The ancestor of every action is a thought. "
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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "
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" Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side. "
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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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" Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. "
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" As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. "
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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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" Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. "
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" Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. "
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" The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. "
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" Genius always finds itself a century too early. "
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" Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. "
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" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "
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" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "
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" Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. "
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" The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. "
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" America is another name for opportunity. "
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" Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. "
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" To be great is to be misunderstood. "
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" In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. "
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" Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. "
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" Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. "
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