“ The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. ”
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“ Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. ”
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“ In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. ”
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“ A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them — as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself — into the grave, and is forgotten. ”
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“ Poetry is the utterance of truth — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle. ”
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“ At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ”
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“ The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. ”
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“ We can imagine a world in which there is no work. A world bathed in incessant summer, whose seed-times and harvests are ever mingling, whose springing influences perpetually ascend, whose fruitage perpetually ripens through all the procession of its golden year… ”
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“ A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it — when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine. ”
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“ If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness — to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. ”
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“ It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced… ”
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“ The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. ”
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“ Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. ”
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“ To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. ”
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“ At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ”
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“ Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. ”
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“ In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface. ”
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“ At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ”
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“ If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness — to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. ”
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“ If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness — to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. ”
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“ To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared. ”
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“ Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. ”
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“ Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition. ”
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“ Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. ”
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“ Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. ”
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“ The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. ”
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“ If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness — to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame. ”
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“ We can imagine a world in which there is no work. A world bathed in incessant summer, whose seed-times and harvests are ever mingling, whose springing influences perpetually ascend, whose fruitage perpetually ripens through all the procession of its golden year… ”
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