"Some will always be above others."
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"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance."
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"Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing."
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"Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope."
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"You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys."
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"Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin."
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"A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway."
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"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
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"My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him."
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"I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America."
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"What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!"
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"The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men."
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"What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!"
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"The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be."
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"We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so."
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"Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate."
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"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts."
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"The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night."
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"Its the not the Destination, It's the journey."
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"Imitation cannot go above its model."
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