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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out...more

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A day is a miniature eternity.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can neve...more

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The years teach much the days never know.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calami...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.