"Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence."
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."
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"The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser."
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"To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs."
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"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants."
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"The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line."
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"One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion."
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"In good writing, words become one with things."
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"The house praises the carpenter."
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"Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear."
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"When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none."
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"The eye is easily frightened."
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"Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore"
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"All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning."
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"Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom."
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"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."
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"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"
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"Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end."
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"We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that."
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