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| We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. |
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| We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! |
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| We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. |
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| What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? |
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| What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end. |
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| What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money. |
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| When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package |
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| When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet. |
| Destiny; Happiness; Optimism; Responsibility; Self-reliance |
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| When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. |
| Ability; Work |
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| You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. |
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| You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does. |
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| You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil |
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| You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. |
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| You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. |
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