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"We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals."
"In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?""
"At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold."
"Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other."
"Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven."
"Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?"
"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."
"Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote."
"If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by."
"How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it."
"Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design."
"All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul."
"But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men."
"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."
"Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?"
"Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same."
"To genius life never grows commonplace."
"Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary."
"The one thing finished in this hasty world."
"The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth."