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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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