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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
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Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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