Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
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