"Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome."
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"Lose yourself in nature and find peace"
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"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship."
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
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"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
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"The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity."
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"Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players."
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"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
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"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."
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"Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power."
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"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE."
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"As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he."
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"Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity."
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"A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back."
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"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."
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"Be not the slave of your own past."
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"Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities."
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"Power and speed be hands and feet."
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"There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit."
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