"Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!"
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"All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word."
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"Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free."
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"Be not a slave of words."
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"Affectation is the product of falsehood."
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"The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence."
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"A man perfects himself by working."
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"Love not Pleasure; love God."
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"He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem."
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"The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do ."
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"He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide."
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"He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech."
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"A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man."
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"How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?"
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"Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind."
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"The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers."
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"Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes."
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"Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal."
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"Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science."
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"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."
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