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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thought is the parent of the deed.
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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