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/ page 846 of 1205 /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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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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There is always safety in valor.
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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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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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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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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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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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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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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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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