"I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer."
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"Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes."
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"Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power."
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"There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."
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"But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing."
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"By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!"
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"All promise outruns performance."
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"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it"
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding"
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"Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage."
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"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense."
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"Be a gift and a benediction."
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"Music is the poor man's Parnassus."
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
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"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly."
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"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant"
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"We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it."
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"Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell."
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"As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist."
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