"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world."
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"Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play."
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"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them."
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"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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"We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born."
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"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit."
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue."
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"Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry."
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"What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another."
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"There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet."
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"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."
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"Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
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"Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man."
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"I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom."
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"Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay."
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"Every chair should be a throne and hold a king."
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"Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon."
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"In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal."
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"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
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