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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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Wonder is the basis of worship.

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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

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Thought is the parent of the deed.

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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

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