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- God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
- Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that…
- A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
- A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up…
- We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds…
- Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
- He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when…
- The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
- Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other…
- In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each…
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
- It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to…
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to…
- This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
- Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
- Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
- Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
- The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who…
- The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded;…
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