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- It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that…
- Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him…
- Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
- Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
- To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end…
- A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and…
- To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.…
- Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a…
- We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all…
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