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...as There Is No Screen Or Ceiling Between Our Heads And The Infinite Heavens, So Is There No Bar Or Wall In The Soul Where Man, The Effect, Ceases, And God, The Cause, Begins. The Walls Are Taken Away. We Lie Open On One Side To The Deeps Of Spiritual Nature, To The Attributes Of God. Justice We See And Know, Love, Freedom, Power. These Natures No Man Ever Got Above, But They Tower Over Us, And Most In The Moment When Our Interests Tempt Us To Wound Them.

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...as There Is No Screen Or Ceiling Between Our Heads And The Infinite Heavens, So Is There No Bar Or Wall In The Soul Where Man, The Effect, Ceases, And God, The Cause, Begins. The Walls Are Taken Away. We Lie Open On One Side To The Deeps Of Spiritual Nature, To The Attributes Of God. Justice We See And Know, Love, Freedom, Power. These Natures No Man Ever Got Above, But They Tower Over Us, And Most In The Moment When Our Interests Tempt Us To Wound Them.

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A Little Praise Goes A Great Ways.

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Peace Cannot Be Achieved Through Violence, It Can Only Be Attained Through Understanding.

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Tis The Old Secret Of The Gods That They Come In Low Disguises.

He Only Is A Well-made Man Who Has A Good Determination.

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Some People Are Born Very Far From Home.

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What You Do Thunders Above Your Head So Loudly, I Cannot Hear The Words You Speak.

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Men Grind And Grind In The Mill Of A Truism, And Nothing Comes Out But What Was Put In. But The Moment They Desert The Tradition For A Spontaneous Thought, Then Poetry, Wit, Hope, Virtue, Learning, Anecdote, And All Flock To Their Aid.

In The Right Hands, Literature Is Not Resorted To As A Consolation, And By The Broken And Decayed, But As A Decalogue.

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Cultivate An Attitude Of Gratitude, Of Giving And Forgiving. Nothing Can Bring You Peace But Yourself.

Slavery Is No Scholar, No Improver; It Does Not Love The Whistle Of The Railroad; It Does Not Love The Newspaper, The Mailbag, A College, A Book Or A Preacher Who Has The Absurd Whim Of Saying What He Thinks; It Does Not Increase The White Population; It Does Not Improve The Soil; Everything Goes To Decay.

Nature Never Rhymes Her Children, Nor Makes Two Men Alike. When We See A Great Man, We Fancy A Resemblance To Some Historical Person, And Predict The Sequel Of His Character And Fortune, A Result Which He Is Sure To Disappoint. None Will Ever Solve The Problem Of His Character According To Our Prejudice, But Only In His High Unprecedented Way.

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Why Should We Assume The Faults Of Our Friend, Or Wife, Or Father, Or Child, Because They Sit Around Our Hearth, Or Are Said To Have The Same Blood?

Every Man Is An Impossibility Until He Is Born.

The Unbelief Of The Age Is Attested By The Loud Condemnation Of Trifles.

A Man Must Thank His Defects, And Stand In Some Terror Of His Talents. A Transcendent Talent Draws So Largely On His Forces As Tolame Him; A Defect Pays Him Revenues On The Other Side.

As A Man Thinketh, So Is He, And As A Man Chooseth, So Is He.

Whoso Would Be A Man Must Be A Nonconformist.

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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 It Commonly Operates Revolutions In Our Way Of Life, Terminates An Epoch Of Infancy Or Of Youth Which Was Waiting To Be Closed, Breaks Up A Wonted Occupation, Or A Household, Or Style Of Living, And Allows The Formation Of New Ones More Friendly To The Growth Of Character.

Human Society Is Made Up Of Partialities. Each Citizen Has An Interest And A View Of His Own, Which, If Followed Out To The Extreme, Would Leave No Room For Any Other Citizen.

Accuracy Is Essential To Beauty.

The Soul Of God Is Poured Into The World Through The Thoughts Of Men.

A Strenuous Soul Hates Cheap Success.

Though We Love Goodness And Not Stealing, Yet Also We Love Freedom And Not Preaching.

The Rule For Hospitality And Irish "help," Is, To Have The Same Dinner Every Day Throughout The Year. At Last, Mrs. O'shaughnessylearns To Cook It To A Nicety, The Host Learns To Carve It, And The Guests Are Well Served.

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Life Must Be Lived On A Higher Plane. We Must Go Up To A Higher Platform, To Which We Are Always Invited To Ascend; There, The Whole Aspect Of Things Changes.

[w]e Pity Our Fathers For Dying Before Steam And Galvanism, Sulphuric Ether And Ocean Telegraphs, Photograph And Spectrograph Arrived, As Cheated Out Of Their Human Estate.

A Man Must Consider What A Blindman's-buff Is This Game Of Conformity.

Our Reliance On The Physician Is A Kind Of Despair Of Ourselves.

It Is In Bad Taste," Is The Most Formidable Word An Englishman Can Pronounce.

A Party Is Perpetually Corrupted By Personality.

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It Is Very Odd That Nature Should Be So Unscrupulous. She Is No Saint . . .

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Wherever A Man Comes, There Comes Revolution. The Old Is For Slaves.

Echo Waits With Art And Care And Will The Faults Of Song Repair.

The Days Are Made On A Loom Whereof The Warp And Woof Are Past And Future Time. They Are Majestically Dressed, As If Every God Brought A Thread To The Skyey Web.

The First Thing A Great Person Does Is Make Us Realize The Insignificance Of Circumstance.

God Enters By A Private Door Into Every Individual.

God Builds His Temple In The Heart On The Ruins Of Churches And Religions.

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Freedom Has Nothing To Do With Having The Right To Vote For Your Oppressor; Freedom Is Not Having Any Form Of Oppression.

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A Beautiful Behavior Is Better Than A Beautiful Form; It Gives A Higher Pleasure Than Statues Or Pictures; It Is The Finest Of Fine Arts.

Ability Without Honor Has No Value.

Nobody Can Bring You Peace But Yourself.

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The Man In The Street Does Not Know A Star In The Sky.

Truth Is The Property Of No Individual But Is The Treasure Of All Men.

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Education Should Be As Broad As Man.

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Faith Makes Us, And Not We It; And Faith Makes Its Own Forms.

Every Reform Was Once A Private Opinion.

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Every Word Was Once A Poem.

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All Life Is An Experiment.

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Five Great Enemies Of Peace Inhabit Us: Avarice, Ambition, Envy, Anger And Pride.

The Artists Must Be Sacrificed To Their Art. Like The Bees, They Must Put Their Lives Into The Sting They Give.

Sitting Back In The Evening, Stargazing And Stroking Your Dog, Is An Infallible Remedy.

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Successful People Live Well, Laugh Often, And Love Much. They've Filled A Niche And Accomplished Tasks So As To Leave The World Better Than They Found It, While Looking For The Best In Others, And Giving The Best They Have.

I Find It More Credible, Since It Is Anterior Information, That One Man Should Know Heaven, As The Chinese Say, Than That So Many Men Should Know The World.

Good Thoughts Are No Better Than Good Dreams If You Don't Follow Through.

I Appeal Now To The Convictions Of The Communicants, And Ask Such Persons Whether They Have Not Been Occasionally Conscious Of A Painful Confusion Of Thought Between The Worship Due To God And The Commemoration Due To Christ.

The Sermon Which I Write Inquisitive Of Truth Is Good A Year After, But That Which Is Written Because A Sermon Must Be Writ Is Musty The Next Day.

I Have Heard That Death Takes Us Away From Ill Things, Not From Good. I Have Heard That When We Pronounce The Name Of Man We Pronounce The Belief Of Immortality.

The Voyage Of The Best Ship Is A Zigzag Line Of A Hundred Tacks.

Poetry Teaches The Enormous Force Of A Few Words, And, In Proportion To The Inspiration, Checks Loquacity.

Every Stoic Was A Stoic; But In Christendom Where Is The Christian?

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It Is A Capital Blunder; As You Discover, When Another Man Recites His Charities.

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Only That Is Poetry Which Cleanses And Mans Me.

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