Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own h.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion but the solid sense of the book is a sober certainty.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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