"A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know."
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"A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works."
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"The populace drags down the gods to their own level."
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"Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call."
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"There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual."
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"Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth."
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"The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living."
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"A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill."
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"The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life."
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"A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature."
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"In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate."
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"Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these."
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"A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion."
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"Our best history is still poetry."
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"Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology."
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"Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify."
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"Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design."
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"In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment."
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"Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates."
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