"All science is transcendental or else passes away."
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"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."
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"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun."
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"Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession."
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"On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours."
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . ."
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"I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment."
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"It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree."
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"He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now."
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"The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment."
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"They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear."
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"The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children."
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"Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all."
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"We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency."
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"There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ."
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"The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men."
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"The victories of character are instant, and victories for all."
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"The world is his who has money to go over it."
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"Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread."
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"All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world."
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