It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, all duties even.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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