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"Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most."
"The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain."
"All great successes are the triumph of persistence."
"Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man."
"The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving."
"Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student."
"We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them."
"Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds."
"Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred.""
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree."
"The poor are only they who feel poor."
"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?"
"The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan."
"There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine."
"Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame."
"One must be an inventor to read well."
"Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend."
"Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life."
"Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity."
"The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all."