"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."
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"Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks."
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"The secret of fortune is joy in our hands."
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"We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful."
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"Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse."
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"Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders."
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"Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?"
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"If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, - under all these screens I have diffuculty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your work and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself. A man must consider what a blind-man's bluff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument."
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"All high beauty has a moral element in it."
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"A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained."
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"Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference."
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"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols."
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"Skepticism is slow suicide."
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"Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce."
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"There is more in every person's soul than we think."
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"Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not."
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"When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion."
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"The poem is a confession of faith."
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"I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil."
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"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature."
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