The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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I like a church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul,
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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all
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