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"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"
"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely"
"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."
"The greatest man in history was the poorest."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power."
"Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere."
"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense."
"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."
"Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer."
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
"Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression."
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins"
"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself."
"A man is related to all nature."
"The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be."
"The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue."
"The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it."
"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."
"The eye is the painter and the ear the singer."