"Thought is the seed of action."
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"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."
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"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
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"The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts."
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"Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble."
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"There is always safety in valor."
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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"...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right."
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"Activity is contagious."
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"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
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"Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture."
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"The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands."
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"The house is a castle which the King cannot enter."
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"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers."
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"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."
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"As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity."
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"Accuracy is essential to beauty."
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation."
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"I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose."
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"When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars."
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