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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…
• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
• To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
• Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
• Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
• Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
• The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
• A little praise goes a great ways.

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