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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

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