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- God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
- It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron…
- A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging…
- Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That…
- A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to…
- Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells,…
- Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health
- Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown
- The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all
- A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging…
- A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a…
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
- By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the…
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