"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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"Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns."
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"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it."
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"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."
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"Debt is a bottomless sea."
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"A thought once awakened does not again slumber."
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"This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick."
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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."
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"Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go."
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"Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself."
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"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
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"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another."
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"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."
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"I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways."
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"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."
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"Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man."
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"Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres."
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"Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero."
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"Biography is the only true history."
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