"Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us."
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"The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power."
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"We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul."
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"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams if you don't follow through."
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"The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy."
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"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
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"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"
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"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."
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"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."
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"It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him."
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"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."
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"Enthusiasm is the engine of success."
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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
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"What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right."
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"Do not follow where the path may lead."
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"One idea lights a thousand candles."
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"Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation."
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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
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"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."
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"The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off."
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