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| Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. |
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| Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. |
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| By nature's kindly disposition most questions which are beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. |
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| Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. |
| Chaos |
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| Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. |
| Character |
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| Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean |
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| Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. |
| Friends; Friendship |
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| Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. |
| Religion |
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| Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself |
| Life; Religion; Society |
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| Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. |
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| England is not the best possible world but it is the best actual country, and a great rest after America |
| Country |
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| England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors |
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| Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. |
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| Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. |
| Experience |
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| Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. |
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| Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim |
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| Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. |
| Fashion |
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| For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. |
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| For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned |
| Fashion |
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