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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.
You cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt.
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.