"Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence."
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"The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other."
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"There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey."
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"If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards."
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"My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation."
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"There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it."
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"What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women."
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"A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture."
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"What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?"
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"Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct."
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"Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity."
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"Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary."
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"How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances."
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"Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate."
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"The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect."
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"Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
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"[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul."
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"The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition."
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"When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else."
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"Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth."
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