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"The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls."
"Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident."
"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."
"Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."
"The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity."
"Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers."
"If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that."
"The universe is but one vast Symbol of God."
"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."
"Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light."
"There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief."
"For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?"
"The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may."
"Infinite is the help man can yield to man."
"No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors."
"Not one false man but doth uncountable evil."
"Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good."
"Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!"