Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis, vanish, - all duties even.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
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